Patent Application Titled “Disaster Recovery as a Dynamic Service” Published Online (USPTO 20170201429)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a patent application by the inventors Gupta, Manish (New Dehli, IN); Venkiteswaran, Sreekrishnan (Bangalore, IN), filed on June 15, 2016, was made available online on July 20, 2017.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Disaster recovery (DR) is a process by which critical aspects of an entity's information technology (IT) environment is replicated at a remote site. In the event of a failure, a failover procedure takes place that switches IT operations to the remote site to provide operational continuity. Depending on the nature of the operations being performed by the entity, different levels of disaster recovery may be appropriate. For example, critical operations may need to be up and running very quickly, while less critical functions can wait.

"Two key metrics for measuring recovery plan requirements include recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). RPO is the maximum period in which data might be lost due to an interruption, while RTO is the time and service level within which a business process must be restored. A cost benefit analysis is typically used to determine the aggressiveness of a recovery plan. For example, a business may seek an RPO of 30 minutes and an RTO of 72 hours.

"Various network or cloud based DR services are currently available to meet the particular DR requirements of a given entity. However, current DR services are essentially static in nature. In other words, once a DR vendor and plan are selected, there is little or no flexibility to easily change vendors or modify the plan without a significant investment of time and resources. Accordingly, there is no simple mechanism for customers to manage DR costs, easily change RPO/RTO targets, or switch vendors."

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent application, VerticalNews editors also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent application: "The present disclosure provides a DR service infrastructure in which a brokerage manager dynamically evaluates, selects and changes DR as a service (DRaaS) providers based on a 'best fit' approach. In this manner, DR is rendered into a modular, open and redundant platform that loosely couples providers and subscribers. And importantly, the physical distance between the subscriber and the DRaaS provider is no longer a restriction for quality of service (QoS), thereby drastically opening up the DR marketplace for subscribers.

"The total cost of ownership (TCO) for DR subscribers is optimized because DR service is transformed into a DR marketplace. The efficiency of the DR marketplace is increased because a subscriber need not be locked into a particular provider. Moreover, benefits of enhanced utilization accrue because the network backbone of the brokerage manager can be shared across subscribers. Further, because the brokerage fabric is 'open,' advanced services such as DR prediction can be readily integrated.

"A first aspect provides a disaster recovery (DR) brokerage infrastructure, comprising: a system that provides access to a network of intermediate storage nodes and peering points; and a brokerage manager that periodically evaluates a set of DR as a service (DRaaS) providers and selects a cost optimal DRaaS provider for a subscriber, wherein the brokerage manager replicates DR related data for the subscriber in a selected intermediate storage node prior to delivery to the cost optimal DRaaS provider.

"A second aspect provides a computer program product stored on computer readable storage medium, which when executed by a computer system, provides a disaster recovery (DR) brokerage infrastructure, comprising: programming instructions for managing a network of intermediate storage nodes and peering points; programming instructions that periodically evaluate a set of DR as a service (DRaaS) providers and selects a cost optimal DRaaS provider for a subscriber; and programming instructions that manage replication of DR related data for the subscriber in a selected intermediate storage node prior to delivery to the cost optimal DRaaS provider.

"A third aspect provides a method of implementing a disaster recovery (DR) brokerage infrastructure, comprising: providing access to a network of intermediate storage nodes and peering points; periodically evaluating a set of DR as a service (DRaaS) providers and selecting a cost optimal DRaaS provider for a subscriber; and replicating DR related data for the subscriber in a selected intermediate storage node prior to delivery to the cost optimal DRaaS provider."

For more information, see this patent application: Gupta, Manish; Venkiteswaran, Sreekrishnan. Disaster Recovery as a Dynamic Service. Filed June 15, 2016 and posted July 20, 2017. Patent URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220170201429%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20170201429&RS=DN/20170201429

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